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Can she ever pull off the rest of the song live? It's kind of like Witness in that the backing vocals are practically half the song. Plus, if she doesn't hit those notes on "will you pray for me", then it's not even worth it!!! Although I would be interested in hearing the choir come back for a show, and join her on this.

I don't think she can hit those notes (at least not reliably, or without damaging her voice) but I remain optimistic that she could come up with some reworking of the song that would make it great in a live context even without them. With a choir? THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!!!

That and Datura are the two songs that she has most criminally under-represented live to me.

If by "best" you mean "dullest" then you'd be right. It boggles the mind why some love this improv so much. Just beacuse it's solo piano doesn't mean it's good. Weatherman and Oysters are great, not the Vicar's Wife, which sounds like something Tori could compose in her sleep.

I was talking about the album version's first part which I really can't abide. If only she would give the full thing a go live, especially with choir/real instruments - it might convince me that UG/TVW actually fit together...

I actually like Promise well enough on its own, but it and Giant's Rolling Pin back-to-back are my second biggest problem with the album (right behind the cheap-ass demo-ness of the non-solo tracks). They don't flow for me at all, while the rest of the album is her most tonally and sonically consistent since Scarlet. Whatever overall "mood" the album has for me kind of gets killed in the middle there.

I don't really get the fuss over the Vicar's Wife section either. Her voice sounds like 90's Tori which is great, but aside from that I don't think it's anything exceptional. Maybe I'm just tired of the whole Marys thing.